Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 - SECT 23DW

  (1)   If there is an insufficient number of potential jurors available on the jury panel for empanelment of the jury under section   23DU, the Court may direct the Sheriff to supplement the jury panel by:

  (a)   if the original panel did not include each potential juror who attended in accordance with a jury summons--selecting additional potential jurors from those attending in the same manner as was done in the formation of the original panel under section   23DS; or

  (b)   both:

  (i)   causing additional summonses to be issued under section   23DP to persons not already summonsed under that section for the jury; and

  (ii)   selecting additional persons from those summonsed and appearing in accordance with that section, in the same manner as was done in the formation of the original panel under section   23DS; or

  (c)   selecting a sufficient number of persons in the vicinity of the Court who are qualified to serve on the jury.

  (2)   For the purposes of this Division, a person selected under paragraph   (1)(c) is taken to be a potential juror included on the jury panel.